Mark L. Rosenfeld

Mark L. Rosenfeld started his career on Wall Street in 1987, the year the stock market crashed. The next few years were rough. He then went to Japan to teach English and stayed for two years. He trained in traditional Japanese Kyokushin Kai Karate, became fluent in the language and acquired an appreciation and an aptitude for cooking Japanese food. After the Japan thing, he entered business school, resumed his Wall Street career and dropped out of business school.

In 2001 while still working on Wall Street, Rosenfeld bought his first apartment building in Jersey City, New Jersey, a building that he owned and managed for eight years. Shortly after, he narrowly escaped a fiery death in the World Trade Center attacks on 9/11. In the Spring of 2002, after 15 years on Wall Street, the author decided to call it quits and obtained a Real Estate License and moved into the field full time. He eventually built his holdings to 48 units and did a few flips. Having sold all his properties in 2009, he moved to the Portland, Oregon area and later to the Dallas Metroplex, where he now lives with his family, a retired racing greyhound, a Bengal cat and a Harley-Davidson Road King, purchased with real estate profits.